{"id":497,"date":"2007-03-06T02:44:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T02:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=497"},"modified":"2007-03-06T02:44:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T02:44:01","slug":"can-a-preacher-stand-in-two-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Can a Preacher stand in two boats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a general Biblical understanding, it not only seems fine, but good.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#39;ve heard of Dr. Tong&#39;s testimony on how he left his formal church of which he was a member of the Board of Directors, and started his own church from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>A dilemma I&#39;m facing now. Should I stop this church I&#39;m attending and start preaching in Bronx; or do I do both at the same time and then choose whichever one demands more of my time?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until a clear solution to this, I shall serve in this church. I do believe God would demand me to be more discipline and responsible for now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a general Biblical understanding, it not only seems fine, but good. However, I&#39;ve heard of Dr. Tong&#39;s testimony on how he left his formal church of which he was a member of the Board of Directors, and started his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}